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I just put some 12-53 gauge acoustic strings on my rhythm guitar. Sounds super full and sustains FOREVARR
Anyone else do something wacky like this with their instruments?

Aren't acoustic strings meant to be thicker because they have to shake an acoustic body? If so, wouldn't that mean they would inherently require more pounds of tension on the neck to obtain the same note. Don't think I'd try it for that reason.

I had to adjust the truss rod, but the guitar is holding up just fine.
I'd get some clips, but my friend has my microphone right now :/

(Guess its karma for me borrowing his micro-cube for like 3 months)

Update: In lieu of my borrowed microphone, I uploaded some clips using my webcam microphone to my profile...

Tried my best to make the audio decent quality.

wav files won't lay on our player and have to be downloaded.

I'm no luthier ... but it just does not sound like a good idea to me.

surely the additional tension and vibration will eventually damage your guitar.

The type of strings has no bearing on the string tension/force on the neck - an 012 acoustic and an 012 electric string would have the same amount of tension.

Julio, you really can't load anything but MP3 files here.

GuitarMikeB wrote:The type of strings has no bearing on the string tension/force on the neck - an 012 acoustic and an 012 electric string would have the same amount of tension.

Not to be argumentative, but I have enough physics background to know that is an impossibility.

Not even two .12's made by the same company on the same day would register the same tension at 440
Perhaps the difference is negligible ?

Well, yeah, one might measure 0.0120045" and the other 0.0120903" and the density of one is 0.35% higher than the other, but if you're going to nitpick about decimal points ....
The point is that the tension from two strings of approximately the same gauge is going to be approximately the same.

(BTW, I took years of physics in college, and it doesn't help my musicianship at all!)

JulioMedina wrote:I just put some 12-53 gauge acoustic strings on my rhythm guitar. Sounds super full and sustains FOREVARR
Anyone else do something wacky like this with their instruments?

Nice Video of Bohemian Rhapsody Solo by the way. PRS guitar?

Sounds like a nice experiment but I can't even retain my tuning with standard strings. The sustain has nothing to do with the strings but by the neck through construction and set up of the PRS? Can strings vibrate better than others?

all I can say is,
that won't last long.

This good ol' Texas boy liked his strings extra heavy... not acoustic strings though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54ieVte ... re=related

Thanks for sharing that vid, J7 but those strings don't look any heavier than 10s 48s E to E.
Check out some of the Jazz guys that are using 13s 58s, E to E.

Maybe back then 10s where considered heavy. Just a thought....

obeythepenguin wrote:

GLENNY J wrote:Thanks for sharing that vid, J7 but those strings don't look any heavier than 10s 48s E to E.
Check out some of the Jazz guys that are using 13s 58s, E to E.

SRV usually used 13-56 (sometimes heavier), tuned to Eb.

Yep, often 13-58, and he would still bend them a whole step. OUCH!

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